Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I GENOCIDE AND MODERNITY
- 2 Twentieth-Century Genocides
- 3 The Modernity of Genocides
- 4 Seeking the Roots of Modern Genocide
- 5 Genocide and the Body Politic in the Time of Modernity
- PART II INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND COLONIAL ISSUES
- PART III THE ERA OF THE TWO WORLD WARS
- PART IV GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER SINCE 1945
- CONCLUSIONS
- Appendix: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Index
4 - Seeking the Roots of Modern Genocide
On the Macro- and Microhistory of Mass Murder
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I GENOCIDE AND MODERNITY
- 2 Twentieth-Century Genocides
- 3 The Modernity of Genocides
- 4 Seeking the Roots of Modern Genocide
- 5 Genocide and the Body Politic in the Time of Modernity
- PART II INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND COLONIAL ISSUES
- PART III THE ERA OF THE TWO WORLD WARS
- PART IV GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER SINCE 1945
- CONCLUSIONS
- Appendix: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- Index
Summary
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- The Specter of GenocideMass Murder in Historical Perspective, pp. 75 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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